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Modern Existentialism is the Rejection of Modernity’s Extreme Essentialism

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May 22, 2023
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Modernity is rejection of the Tao (the "Great Rejection"). Existentialist movements throughout the past 200 years have rejected the rejection . . . and proven wildly popular.

September, 1945. Paris.

Jean-Paul Sartre and his friends started a new journal, The Modern Times, which challenged writers to commit to action.

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